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Sometimes being chased around a graveyard is exactly what you need. Life in lockdown has hit in surprisingly unusual ways for me, affecting what I choose to read and sending life skittering away, the off axis torque of the pandemic… Read More ›

Vernacular Books is thrilled to announce Marie Vibbert’s Galactic Hellcats, a novel in which a female biker gang in space must learn to trust each other while rescuing a gay prince from a totalitarian regime on an alien planet, will… Read More ›

Since at least December, a new issue of The Dark Magazine arrives every month on my ereader. I’ll admit, I haven’t had much of a stomach for horror since my kids were born, despite my brain being wired to write… Read More ›

Vernacular Book is thrilled to announce we have acquired Queen of None, a novel by Natania Barron, to be released in the fall of 2020. Natania is the author of dozens of short stories, a fistful of novellas, and a… Read More ›

Joe’s recent grumpy review about Frozen I & II got me thinking about the stories we tell our children. Those movies, and often their soundtracks, have been on a constant loop in my busy household for sometime. I even reviewed… Read More ›

The opening scenes of Amazon’s new sci-fi series, Tales from the Loop, are subtle, but the images will stick with you. Lampposts shaped like mechanical feet appear ready to stomp on workers filing into an industrial building on a cold… Read More ›

“This isn’t a good place for someone who likes books,” Gorent, the main character of the movie The Platform, directed by Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia, is told over and over after waking up in a uniquely structured prison that allows two prisoners… Read More ›

In Ari Aster’s nightmarish Midsommar, a group of graduate students travel to a remote Swedish community to study its unique religious beliefs. Eager to escape the tragedy of her parent’s murder/suicide perpetrated by her sister, Dani (Florence Pugh) asks her… Read More ›

by Alison McMahan Barb Goffman is the powerhouse editor behind Crime Travel (Wildside Press, December 2019), an anthology of fifteen mystery stories that all involve traveling back and forth through time. Goffman is a former newspaper reporter, a veteran editor of the Chesapeake… Read More ›